Amazing that people are only now waking up to the idea of net fiscal contribution. At a micro and macro level.

The welfare state is not failing because of migrants, but because of rentier extraction, exorbitant housing costs, privatized healthcare, interest payments, student loans, car loans, visa debt etc absorbs the surplus that used to fund public goods #Neoliberalism

Has 'correlation not causation' been cited? It seems like it might be worth consideration.